CEP News: Guardian: For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing

Guardian:
For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing

6 August 2016

A new study finds that, while the addition of a second child has little effect on the working hours of mothers in skilled jobs, it has a substantial and negative effect on low-skilled women who are forced to reduce their hours considerably or even give up their jobs altogether. The findings reinforce the view that there is a shortage of affordable childcare in the UK, despite successive government attempts to help women into work in recent years. The study, by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, to be presented at this month's annual congress of the European Economic Association in Geneva, examined a group of 3,000 women in the UK aged between 20 and 36 who had their first child between 2000 and 2001.

This article was published by the Guardian on August 6, 2016
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Guardian:For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing

Guardian:
For UK women in low-paid jobs, a second child is a mixed blessing